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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Ice, Hot. Discovery of Professor T. Carnelly as to ice under 

 exceedingly low pressure, 405: experiments upon water, 

 with curious results, 405, 406 ; also, as to mercuric chlo- 

 ride, 406. 



Illinois. Session of the Legislature from January to June, 

 406 ; whole number of bills introduced, number sent to 

 the Governor, 406 ; subject of temperance taken up, pro- 

 hibition bill introduced, amendment to the State Consti- 

 tution proposed, 406; resolutions as to the management 

 of railroad corporations, 406, 407; the Committee on 

 Railroads instructed to bring in a bill to prevent pooling, 

 unjust discriminations, the issuing of stock in excess, 

 etc., 407 ; no act passed on the subject, 407 ; the com- 

 pulsory education bill, main feature quoted, 407 ; the act 

 to prevent and punish the adulteration and sale of any 

 article of food, or drink, or medicine, 407 ; stringent pro- 

 visions, severe penalties, 407 ; the two distinctions as to 

 articles injurious to health, and articles not injurious : 

 the first is a crime, the second (unless clearly marked on 

 every package) a fraud, 407; the curious plea allowed as 

 to the knowledge of violating the act, 407 ; the act to 

 prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle, 

 407, 408; the traffic in deadly weapons regulated, minors 

 not allowed to become purchasers. 408; the marriage law 

 amended, 408 : the insurance also, 408 ; the change in 

 revenue law, 408 ; the manufacture of " bogus butter" 

 forbidden, 40S; an act regulating the practice of phar- 

 macy, 408; the mode of raising the revenue for State 

 purposes agitated, 408 ; the previous efforts in this direc- 

 tion, 408 ; two measures proposed, one to raise revenue 

 from railroad, express, telegraph, and insurance corpora- 

 tions ; the other to try and equalize the apportionment of 

 taxation, by appointing a commission on revenue reform, 

 eta, 408; no specific action taken, 409; eight acts relat- 

 ing to revenue adopted, 409. 



Apportionment of the State into districts (twenty) for 

 election of members of Congress, 409 ; State debt extin- 

 guished, 409 ; papers on birds and fishes of the State, 

 foods for these, etc., 409 ; also, on food of beetles, 410 ; 

 the State Industrial University, 410 ; results quoted 

 as fruits of carpenters' and machine shops, 410 ; public 

 interest in the proposed canal from Davenport on the 

 Mississippi to Hennepin on the Illinois River, 410 ; trade 

 interests of Chicago endangered, St. Louis apparently 

 grasping the scepter of the grain-trade, 410 ; conventions 

 held, 410 ; resolutions at once held at Davenport, urging 

 on improvement of navigation of the Mississippi River,. 

 410 ; decline in breadstuff's received in Chicago, increase 

 in the flour-trade, 411 ; table of receipts and shipments 

 of breadstufls, provisions, live-stock, etc., during the 

 year, compared with those of 18SO, 411 ; great increase 

 in business transactions, 411 ; table of equalized value of 

 lands, lots, and personal property (other than railroad; in 

 the State for 1SS1, 411 ; population of the State by coun- 

 ties, according to the census of 1830, with corresponding 

 figures for 1870, 412. 



Immigration. Increase of immigrants, 412 ; nearly 600,000 

 in 1S30, 412; arrivals at the port of New York, 412; 

 classified according to their nativity, 412 ; destinations of 

 immigrants, 412 ; arrivals at other ports, whole number of 

 arrivals during ten years, 413; immigration from British 

 North American provinces, 413 ; immigration from Rus- 

 sia (Mennonites and Jews), 413; Chinese immigration 

 through the port of San Francisco, 413 ; table showing 

 immigrants (and nationalities) from 17S3 to 1880, 413, 414; 

 rules established by the Commissioners of Emigration at 

 New York, examinations, care, medical inspection, etc., 



414; Bureau of Information, Labor Bureau, usefulness 

 of, 414. 



Inability or Disability of a President. President Gar- 

 field's long illness brought on a discussion on this point, 

 414 ; language of the Constitution, 414 ; meaning of " in- 

 ability " and " disability," 414; question never adjudicated 

 as to whether the Vice-President became President, or 

 was only to " act as President," 415 ; course pursued 

 when Harrison died, John Tyler was addressed as " Pres- 

 ident," and so in subsequent cases, 415; in Garfleld's 

 case, question as to what constituted * ; inability," and 

 how it was to be determined, 415; no action was taken 

 on the questions raised, 415; opinions given by different 

 persons, Messrs. Thompson, Hendricks, Trumbull, 415, 

 416; Judge Cooley's view, Congress the proper tribunal 

 to determine this matter, 416; General B. F. Butler's 

 opinion, no need of legislation, 416 ; Professor T. W. 

 Dwight, of New York, holds inability and disability to 

 be equivalent, and to be determined by judicial proced- 

 ure, 416, 417; further question as to disability of both 

 President and Vice-President, 417; language of the Con- 

 stitution, 417 ; there was no President pro tempore of 

 the Senate, and no Speaker of the House at the time, 

 417; are Senators and Representatives "officers" of the 

 United States? 417; the new President called attention 

 to the subject in his first message, 417; taken up in the 

 Senate, Senator Beck's preamble and resolution, 417; bill 

 introduced by Garland, of Arkansas, making the Secre- 

 tary of State, or the Secretary of the Treasury, or the 

 Secretary of War, to act in case of the death or disability 

 of the President and Vice-President, 417, 418; brief de- 

 bate, subject went over to 1882, 418. 



India. Viceroy, commander-in-chief of the army, Executive 

 and Legislative Council, 418; area and population, 418; 

 receipts and expenditures, public debt, 418; estimated 

 revenue and expenditure of the year, 418 ; estimate for 

 next year rather uncertain, owing to fluctuations in opium 

 revenue, losses by exchange, and uncertain harvests, 419; 

 grants made by Parliament, 419 ; cost of the Afghan war 

 nearly used up the famine fund, 419; one half to be used 

 in constructing protective works, 419; prospect for the 

 future not satisfactory as to revenue, 419: efforts and 

 plans for improvement in this respect, 419 ; cost of con- 

 structing productive public works, 419, 420; loans on 

 good terms, 420 ; census of India, total population, also of 

 provinces, 420; effectsof the famineon thequestion of over- 

 population, 420 ; steps suggested against devastations of 

 famine, 420 ; about half the area of India is cultivated, 

 but the system of farming rude and ineffective, 420, 421 ; 

 if the soil were well cultivated the yield would be suffi- 

 cient to meet all contingencies of droughts, famines, lo- 

 cust and rat plagues, 421 ; development of resources under 

 way, 421 ; British rule in India a pure military despotism, 

 country restive under it and ground down into poverty, 

 421 ; some improvement looked and hoped for, 421 ; rail- 

 roads, developing mineral wealth, cotton manufacturing, 

 etc., expected to be of service, 421 ; sudden changes in 

 governmental policy and officers very aggravating, 421, 

 422 ; land reform in Bengal, 422 ; Mysore restored to na- 

 tive rule, 422; danger of outbreaks. 422 ; the Kherwar sect 

 and Babajee the leader, 422; conspiracy in Kolapore, 

 422; Brahmanical conspiracies in Western India, 423; 

 protest of the Indian Government against evacuating 

 Candahar, 423; several border outbreaks, 423; the new 

 Governor of Madras, 423. 



Indiana. Session of the Legislature, 423 ; Senator elected, 

 423; joint resolution as to soldiers of the Mexican War who 

 joined the rebellion, 423 ; important tax bill, so as to 

 reach untaxed property, bonds, notes, sleeping-cars, etc., 

 423, 424 ; exemptions, 424 ; the whipping-post bill failed, 



